[Observium] October Changelog

[Adam Armstrong]

Hi Guys,

Here's the condensed version of the changes for October:

Also visible at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#October_2013

Major Improvements and Additions

Extensive improvements to sensor display code and definitions.
Extensive restructuring to sensor discovery including linking sensors to
OSes via MIB simplifying the process of adding new OSes and sensor
types.
WMI-based poller for retrieving extra data from Windows. Improves
CPU/Storage polling and adds Exchange and MSSQL metrics collection.
Major rewrite to integrate and expand PowerNet-MIB support for APC
devices
Allow the use of max-reps on snmpbulkwalk. Vastly improves walking of
large tables on supported devices, particularly IOS, Arista and Linux.
New Google Maps API-based map complete with point clustering,
auto-centring and zooming support to replace the old Google Charts API
map

Improvements and Additions

Support for AVTECH RoomAlert 24E
Detection of Toshiba eStudio printers
Detection of DIGI USB servers
Barracuda NG FW detection
Support for airflow sensors.
Support for state sensors on SensorProbe / Minkel SRMS.
Allow device hostname as a parameter instead of device_id
Support for processor and memory on Cisco QFP
Collect Dell Service Tag from Dell PowerConnect devices
HH3C memory pool and processor polling from HH3C-ENTITY-MIB
RADLAN state sensors from RADLAN-HWENVIROMENT MIB
Microsens OS and temperature sensors detection
Procera detection
NetAPP filesystem discovery and polling via the storage system
Additional Dell PowerConnect sysObjectIDs
Dell-Vendor-MIB sensors
Netbotz support
Support for two new sensors types; Capacity and Runtime. Primarily used
for UPSes and other battery-related devices.
Audiocodes Mediant detection

Bugfixes

Fix Cisco SLA support
Some improvements to handling of invalid devices and graph types
Improved limits for timeouts/retries on SNMP operations
Applications with multiple instances are now accessed via a drop-down
Warning if devices have never been polled/discovered now works correctly
Fix API to correctly use the authentication system instead of hardcoded
database authentication.
Correctly use user id in LDAP auth to allow per-device and per-entity
permissions
Fix Cisco BGP session address formatting
Make sure that the RRD directory is correctly renamed when renaming a
device

Debugging / Troubleshooting

Add a page to output the data Observium holds about a port for
debugging/troubleshooting purposes.

[Nikolay Shopik]

That's really nice idea to have monthly summary.

Post by Adam Armstrong
Hi Guys,
Also visible at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#October_2013

[Adam Armstrong]

Post by Nikolay Shopik
That's really nice idea to have monthly summary.

Yeah, we never managed to keep it updated in realtime, but it only took
an hour or two to do, so I think we might do it this way in future.

adam.

Post by Nikolay Shopik
Hi Guys,
Also visible at http://www.observium.org/wiki/Changelog#October_2013
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